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| Oscar Gustave Rejlander Infant Photography gives the Painter an Additional Brush ca. 1856 albumen print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Claude-Marie Ferrier Model house for Families designed by HRH Prince Albert for the Great Exhibition of 1851, London salted paper print Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| William Henry Fox Talbot Articles of china ca. 1844 salted paper print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
THE EVENING STAR
Tonight, for the first time in many years,
there appeared to me again
a vision of the earth's splendor:
in the evening sky
the first star seemed
to increase in brilliance
as the earth darkened
until at last it could grow no darker.
And the light, which was the light of death,
seemed to restore to earth
its power to console. There were
no other stars. Only the one
whose name I knew
as in my other life I did her
injury: Venus,
star of the early evening,
to you, I dedicate
my vision, since on this blank surface
you have cast enough light
to make my thought
visible again.
– Louise Glück, from the volume Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
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| Eugène Durieu Study of a model ca. 1850-57 salted paper print George Eastman House, Rochester New York |
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| Charles Nègre Family Group 1854 salted paper print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Oscar Gustave Rejlander Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist ca. 1860 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Oscar Gustave Rejlander Head of John the Baptist on a Charger 1855 albumen print Royal Collection, Windsor (purchased by Queen Victoria in 1869) |
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| Étienne-Jules Marey Movements in Pole-vaulting ca. 1885-95 gelatin silver print Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Étienne-Jules Marey Arab Horse Galloping 1887 gelatin silver print Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Guido Rey Dutch Interior (after Vermeer) ca. 1895 platinum print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| attributed to James Anderson View of the Tiber and Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome 1880s carbon print Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Arnold Genthe Merchant and Bodyguard, Old Chinatown, San Francisco ca. 1896-1906 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Louis Fleckenstein People riding a carousel ca. 1910 gum bichromate print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Fédèle Azari Shadow of a blimp near Milan ca. 1914-29 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |